Senior Staff Field Engineer · Kong · Netherlands

Hi, I'm
Kuldeep Bhati.

I help enterprises run APIs and AI traffic in production, with security, visibility and cost control built in.

I’ve built and operated API platforms since 2013. Today I work alongside platform teams at banks, insurers and retailers, taking Kong Gateway, Konnect and AI Gateway into production. On the AI side, that means putting a governed layer between teams and the AI services they use, from LLM calls to MCP servers: authenticating every request, enforcing security and guardrails, keeping token spend under control, and giving platform owners visibility into usage, latency and cost.

Everything I write here comes from a real customer problem and how we solved it in production.

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Skills
  • Kong Gateway
  • Konnect
  • AI Gateway
  • MCP
  • Governance as code
  • Konnect migrations
  • APIOps
  • OpenTelemetry
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Latest writing

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  1. 01 mTLS with Kong Gateway · Part 2 Set up mTLS from Kong to the backendMake Kong present a client certificate to a backend that only accepts mTLS, check the backend's certificate, and pass client identity only where needed. 7 min
  2. 02 mTLS with Kong Gateway · Part 1 Authenticate API clients with mTLS certificates in KongAuthenticate API clients with mTLS certificates in Kong Gateway, map each one to a consumer, and reuse it for rate limits, access rules and other plugins. 12 min
  3. 03 Kong Gateway metrics, logs and traces in one GrafanaTwo Kong plugins and one OpenTelemetry Collector take you from a 5xx spike on Kong's dashboard to the failing request's log line and trace. 7 min